Press Releases

CLEVELAND – Today, Rep. Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) announced the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has been awarded $4 million in grant funding through the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Bus and Bus Facilities Grant Program.  The funding will be used for GCRTA’s Hayden Garage Roof Replacement Project.

WASHINGTON – Today, on the one-year anniversary of President Biden signing the American Rescue Plan into law, Rep. Shontel Brown called for an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit. The American Rescue Plan expanded the amount of the Child Tax Credit and provided families with advance monthly payments totaling up to one-half of the credit, cutting child poverty by 40 percent.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Shontel Brown (OH-11) supported passage in the House of Representatives of H.R. 2471, an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2022 and provide supplemental funding to support Ukraine.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Shontel Brown (OH-11) joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Invest in America, and Small Business for America’s Future for a press conference call with Ohio small business owners aided by the American Rescue Plan.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) voted for H.R. 3967, the Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act or Honoring our PACT Act, which will finally treat toxic exposure as a cost of war by addressing the full range of issues impacting toxic-exposed veterans’; including access to earned benefits and healthcare through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). 

WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Shontel M. Brown (D-OH-11), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), and Don Young (R-AK-At-large) led a bipartisan group of 79 Members of Congress requesting the inclusion of additional funding for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) in upcoming appropriations packages or any additional COVID relief spending legislation. 

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, OH – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) announced Shaneice Ball, a mother of three from Cleveland who benefitted from the expanded Child Tax Credit, will be her virtual guest for President Biden’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, March 1.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Shontel M. Brown (OH-11) released the following statement on President Biden’s historic nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: